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St. Gallischer Yacht Club

[Pennant of the St. Gallischer Yacht Club] image by Ivan Sache

St. Gallischer Yacht Club (SGYC) is based in Rohrschach, on the southern share of Lake Constance.

The burgee of SGYC is red with a green pairle outlined in white.

http://www.sgyc.ch/ SGYC website
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018

Segelclub Brienzersee

[Pennant of the Segelclub Brienzersee ] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

 The burgee of the Segelclub Brienzersee can be found as a large scale drawing on the pages of the club's websites, http://www.scb.ch.gg/ and http://sc-brienzersee.npage.de/. It's a blue triangular burgee, 4:7, with a narrow yellow border and an even more narrow flywise yellow centre line, the latter interrupted by a blue disk fimbriated yellow bearing a yellow emblem. The emblem consists of the letters "scb", forming the body of a sailing boat, with the "b" forming the mast, with on it a sail, and the bow, and the "s" forming the stern, from which the lower line continues as the boat's wake.

Segelclub Brienzersee (SCB), Lake Brienz Sailing Club, is a sailing club that probably has Lake Brienz as its home waters, and as the entire lake is in Canton Bern, I expect the club is in that canton as well. The club's webpages are very short on general information.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013

Segel Club Cham

[Pennant of the Segel Club Cham] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

A photograph of the burgee of the Segel Club Cham can be seen in the club's shop, http://www.scc.ch/shop, and the site includes various graphics as well. The club's statutes (http://www.scc.ch/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/Statuten-Segel-Club-Cham.pdf) describe it as:
"Farben § 4
Die Farben des SCC sind: blauer Wappenmantel mit rotem Balken und einem weissen fünfzackigen Stern im ersten Drittel der Basis."
Something like:
(Colours $ 4
The colours of the SCC are: Blue coat with red stripe an a white five-pointed star in the first third of the base.)

I can't match "in the first third of the base" with any of the images, so I've mostly followed the photograph instead. I made it a triangular 3:5 blue burgee with a lengthwise red stripe, with over all a white five-pointed star, pointing towards the hoist. I used a stripe, 1/6th the height of the hoist in width, and a star constructed within a circle half the height of the flag in diameter. I placed the star with its centre half the height of the hoist from the hoist. As a logo, the burgee is also used with an upright star.

The description in the statutes might tell us more, if understood correctly. It might be that the intention is that the star is much closer to the hoist, but an older illustration would be needed to verify that.

The Segel Club Cham (SCC), Cham Sailing Club, started its life as the Cham Group of the Segelgilde Zugersee, the latter having been founded in 1942 in Cham and the two groups having been formed in 1943. As the groups grew larger, in 1947 they became independent. Thus 22 March 1947 the Segel Club Cham came into existence. The club has always been located at Cham, in the northwest corner of Lake Zug. The SCC aims for sailors to actively sail their boats. For this they educate young and old, and since moorings are limited the club also encourages joint use of boats.

Their predecessor, the Segelgilde Zugersee, had a burgee as well. It may be this was the burgee used today by the Segel Club Cham, but so far I've not heard from either club to confirm or deny that. I've not been able to find other information on the SGZ so far either. Considering the burgees of the two clubs, it would seem likely that the burgee of the SGZ contained a five-pointed star.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 October 2013

Segel-Club Enge

[Pennant of the Segel-Club Enge] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of Segel-Club Enge can be found as drawings at several pages of the club website, like http://www.segelclubenge.ch and http://www.segelclubenge.ch/dokumente/YWB_09_DYN.html. A photo can be found in the club shop: http://www.segelclubenge.ch/images/shop. As all these differ, I've tried to find a middle ground: A triangular 3:5 blue field with a red and yellow lying T, with the width of the arms of the T being 1/3 of the length of the hoist, and the yellow making up the centre half of each arm. What the meaning of these yellow crossing lines fimbriated red on a blue field is, I don't know, but at least three other clubs on the Zürichsee have such a design. The burgee was designed by Walter Frey, and probably adopted on 9 April 1937 as the club was founded.

A text on the 75 year jubilee (http://www.segelclubenge.ch/dokumente/Jubilar.pdf) shows quite a different flag as club house flag. It's a high flag, at least 5:1, white, with at the top a depiction of the burgee, and along the fly edge "SCE Segel-Club Enge" in sans all caps, the first three letters black and almost half as high as the flag is deep, the rest in smaller grey letters.

The Segel-Club Enge (SCE) is, as the name indicates, located in Enge, on the west coast of the Zürichsee. In the Spring 1937 almost all sailing members of the Segel- und Motorbootclub Zürich left that club because they felt the club was obstructing them. On 9 April 1937 22 members founded the Segelclub Enge. The membership has since grown to more than 400, making the SCE one of the larger clubs in Switzerland.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 26 September 2013

Segel Club Männedorf

[Pennant of the Segel Club Männedorf] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

In the first year of the existence of Segel Club Männedorf, the club's burgee was designed by W. Pfister jr. No formal adoption is mentioned, but the burgee is described in the statutes. It's shown as a graphic on the club website (http://www.segelclub.ch), is visible on a photograph (http://www.segelclub.ch/regatten/2005/ZuerichseeCup05_Winner.JPG), and is in use as a logo on the club documents (http://www.segelclub.ch/kontakt/Interessenten/Statuten_2007.pdf). The burgee is a triangular 2:3 flag, with 9 black and yellow tapering stripes, the outer ones half the width of the others, charged with a counter-changed silhouette of a main sail and spinnaker.

According to the statutes:
"15. Stander Der Clubstander des SCMd ist in den Gemeindefarben gelb und schwarz gehalten, in dem gelbe und schwarze Streifen alternierend in der Spitze des Standers zusammenlaufen. Durch Versetzen der Streifen entsteht das Bild eines stilisierten Grosssegels mit Spinnaker."
(15. Burgee The club burgee of the SCMd was kept in the Municipal colours, by having alternating yellow and black stripes converge in the tip of the burgee. Through displacement of the stripes an image of a stylised main sail and spinnaker emerges.)

Segel Club Männedorf (SCMd) is located in Männedorf, directly on the water. This places it more or less in the middle of the Zürichsee, with an superb view of the lake. The club was founded on 24 May 1973, with the obvious intention to take part in competitive sailing. Currently it has approximately 350 members, and competitive sailing is still a large part of the club's activity (No reason is given for the unusual "Segel Club", rather than "Segelclub").
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 21 September 2013

Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken

[Pennant of the Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken is only visible as graphics on their website, http://www.scni.ch, where it is drawn as a 3:5 triangle with a yellow field with a wide blue border around it, and over both shaped black letters "SCNI", and around the entire design a narrow yellow border. There are, however, slight variations between the drawings.

Segelclub Neuhaus-Interlaken (SCNI), Neuhaus-Interlaken Sailing Club, is located in Interlaken though at Neuhaus, which is on the Lake Thun shore. The club was founded 27 April 1972, and makes a point of not targeting a specific type of member, other than people who enjoy sailing.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 1 November 2013

Segelclub Oberer Zürichsee

[Pennant of the Segelclub Oberer Zürichsee] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

A graphic of the burgee of the Segelclub Oberer Zürichsee can be found on the pages of the club's website. A photo of it can be seen in a list of Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483). Apparently it's a 3:5 triangle, with a white sail-like shape separating the red upper hoist from the blue field. At the foot of the shape a yellow circle.
André Cemin, president of the SCOZ, let me know that "the flag shows you the view from the top of the mast (Yellow dot) dawn on the foresail (jib-white) to the water (blue). The red partition on the top left together with the white sail also resembles the official colors of the Swiss National Flag as well as the colors of the Swiss district (Canton of Schwyz) where the SCOZ is home based."
The burgee was designed in 1974 by Hans Uster, one of the founders of the SCOZ.
The Segelclub Oberer Zürichsee (SCOZ) was founded in 1974. The club has the Obersee as its home waters, and the Yachthafen Kiebitz in Nuolen, Wangen commune, as its home harbour. Primarily the club members sail recreational on the lake's waters, but they also sail competitive, there and elsewhere in Switzerland, and a growing number also sail the seas.

Other flags:
– Harbour feast photographs show a KIBAG pennant, whatever that is. [A nearby company that mines gravel]
– At http://www.scoz.ch/NeoDownload?docId=403687 I encountered a mention that the club's rescue boats are marked with an orange flag. I don't know whether this is club-specific or general for all of Switzerland, though.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013

Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ

[Pennant of the Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

With the help of Cornelia Kegele of the SCPF I was able to put together the following report:
A drawing of the Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ burgee at good resolution can be found at the club website at http://www.scpf.ch/clubdesk/fileservlet?type=image&inline=true&id=1000000, though I could not find the page it is linked from. It's an approximately 3:7 triangular blue field with a yellow off-set cross fimbriated red.

The Segelclub Pfäffikon SZ (SCPF) was founded on 24 October 1963. The burgee was created shortly after the foundation of the club. The members of the Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil protested against the design, however, as their burgee already had a blue field with a cross and crossing yellow stripes fimbriated red. However, the SCPF decided to keep the design as it was.
The club's home-town is Pfäffikon in Freienbach next to the Seedamm. The SCDF club house is in the former brickworks, and the club built itself a harbour on the south shore of the Zürichsee. There, a club flag flies from a flag mast on the pier, with the same design as the burgee as that's the only flag design the club uses. The SCPF currently has about a hundred members.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 October 2013

Segelclub Rietli Goldach

[Pennant of the Segelclub Rietli Goldach] image by Ivan Sache

Segelclub Rietli Goldach (SCR) was established on 15 August 1944 in the Rietli restaurant in Goldach (Saint-Gall), on the southern shore of Lake Constance.

The burgee of SCR, adopted in 1944, is horizontally divided into three blue, white and green triangles converging to the flag's point; the blue letter "SCR" are placed in the white triangle.
http://www.scrietli.ch/  (SCR website)
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018

Segelclub Schloss Greifensee

[Pennant of the Segelclub Schloss Greifensee] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of the Segelclub Schloss Greifensee can be found on the front page of the club website, http://www.segelclub-scsg.ch. A photo of it can be seen in a list of Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483). Though these don't match precisely, it appears to be a 3:5 triangular yellow field with a red tricross, with arms with a width of 1/5 the length of the hoist. A graphic where the burgee bears the letters SCSG can be found on a website page as well. Until I learn otherwise, I'll assume this is only a graphic, whatever the purpose of adding lettering to the burgee may be.
The colours of the burgee are those of the community Greifensee.

Segelclub Schloss Greifensee (SCSG) was founded on 14 May 1949, by a group of only five charter members. It has grown to a club of more than 200 members. Greifensee is the club's home, and the lake of the same name are its home waters. The club is proud of its national, European and world championship medal-winners, but stresses that recreational sailing is as important as competitive sailing. The SCSG also stresses fellowship and teaching youth. Exactly why the club is named after Greifensee Castle, is not mentioned on their website. [Maybe to distinct themselves better from the Segelclub vom Greifensee]
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013

Segelclub Sihlsee

[Pennant of the Segelclub Sihlsee] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of the Segelclub Sihlsee is only visible as a logo on the club's website and documents (http://www.segelclub-sihlsee.ch). It's a blue triangle of approximately 5:8, with a charge in white. The charge looks like three images of film, but I would not know why such a charge would be on a burgee, so I expect it's something else.

Segelclub Sihlsee (SCS), Sihlsee Sailing Club, is located in Einsiedeln. Its home water is the Sihlsee, Switzerland's largest artificial lake. It may be that the character of the lake means that cruising is not very interesting, but in any case the club seems to focus an competitive sailing and training children and youngsters.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 31 October 2013

Segelclub Stäfa

[Pennant of the Segelclub Stäfa] image by Ivan Sache

Segelclub Stäfa (SCStä) was established on 18 October 1967 in Stäfa, on the northern shore of Lake Zurich.

The burgee of SCStä is made of a blue vertical stripe placed along the hoist and a white half disc emitting eight white and seven red rays.

https://www.scstaefa.ch/
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018

Segelclub Tribschenhorn

[Pennant of the Segelclub Tribschenhorn] image by Ivan Sache

Segelclub Tribschenhorn (SCT) was established in 1978 in Lucerne.

The burgee of SCT is white with a blue border, a vertical blue stripe placed along the hoist and charged with the blue letter "SCT" and three blue triangular sails.

http://www.sct.ch/
Ivan Sache, 18 April 2018

Segelclub vom Greifensee

[Pennant of the Segelclub vom Greifensee] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of the Segelclub vom Greifensee can be seen as a graphic on, among other places, the front page of the club, and as a photograph in a list of Zürichsee-Segelverbandes (1976) burgees (http://www.scoz.ch/index.jsp?nodeId=11483). Following the photo, I'd say it's a blue triangular flag in a ratio of 6:11, with a white line with a width of slightly more than 1/11 of the length of the hoist through the middle. Parallel to it, above it, the last one slightly overlapping it, five stripes of the same width, red and white, so long that the top stripe is cut diagonally by the flag's edge.
Exact design: No formal description found. Though the photo shows overlapping, it may be that this is not part of the design. Also, the ratio may in reality be different.
Meaning: The five red over white stripes obviously come from the municipal flag of Uster.

It took the people of Uster a while to realise that the Greifensee could be used for sailing. After the Segelclub vom Greifensee (SCvG) was founded in 1943, their next problem was to convince the rest of Switzerland that sailing on such a puddle was indeed possible. Where in the first year, regattas were sailed with shore start, in the years since then it turned out that the puddle could even be used to organise Swiss Championships on. Nowadays the club supports both recreational and competitive sailing, even if they are justifiably proud of the club members who sail competitively in the Olympic Games.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 12 October 2013

Segelclub Wendelsee

[Pennant of the Segelclub Wendelsee] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

[Pennant of the Segelclub Wendelsee] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of Segelclub Wendelsee can be found as a logo on the club website, http://www.scwe.ch, and the documents on it. It's a triangular flag with a black hoist and red fly, the two separated with a shaped W the two outer tips of which form the hoist corners. Presumably the W stands for "Wendelsee". The logos do not all show the exact same design, though, differing in the style of W used, and in the ratio. As I could not find specifications or a photo, I settled on an average 2:3 burgee, showing one with a W with an sharp inner point and one with a blunt inner tip.

Counter to what the name suggests, the home water of Segelclub Wendelsee, Lake Wendel Sailing Club, is not Lake Wendel, as the club is not old enough for that. "Lake Wendel" was, more than a millennium ago, the name for the combination of Lake Brienz and Lake Thun before the lakes were separated, and may have remained the old name for Lake Thun for a number of centuries afterwards. Segelclub Wendelsee (SCWe) was founded 15 May 1975. Their home water is the lake now named "Lake Thun", where they strive to further both the activeness and cosiness aspects of sailing. As their clubhouse is in the boat house of Ruderclub Thun, the location of the SCWe must be Thun, though they don't seem to mention it anywhere.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 October 2013

Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg

[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg] [Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg] images by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg can be seen as a graphic on the pages of the club's website, where it appears to be 2:3. A photo of an actual burgee in the club shop, however, shows that it really has a 3:4 ratio. It's a triangular blue field with three yellow wavy lines of two waves. Though the charges are probably indeed meant as waves, they may refer to the three yokes in the municipal flag.

There is a flag for the club house. The terrain rules even require the members to hoist it on longer stays. This might be the flag that we see hanging in the tent during the 40 year celebration. It is similar to the burgee, but 3:5 and with more massive charges.

Club:
Segel- und Yachtclub Herrliberg (SYH), Herrliberg Sail and Yacht Club, celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2013, so they were probably founded in 1973. The club is apparently located in Herrliberg on the east coast of Lake Zurich, though I could find no mention of their location on their current website. Apparently they target the local population, who would know where to find them. To these, the club is "more than sailing", according to their tag.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 October 2013

Segel- und Motorbootclub Glarnerland und Walensee

[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

A graphic on the website of the Segel- und Motorbootclub Glarnerland und Walensee, http://www.smcgw.ch, shows a waving and rippling burgee. It's a 4:7 red over black over red, 3:4:3 burgee with tapering stripes. Spanning the black is a white compass star, its centre 1/4th of the length of the hoist away from the hoist.

[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 

The Dumpy Pocket Book of Sailing Dinghies and Yachts [ele60?], shows a similar design, but with a larger star, extending some length into the red. This is also how the SMCGM burgee logo is depicted on at least one shared document on the SCOW website, e.g. http://www.scow.ch/regatta/fairplay_text.gif. What seems to be a more recent document, http://www.scow.ch/regatta/junioren/junioren.htm, shows the logo as it is currently visible on the SMCGW website. It may be the burgee, or at least the flagoid, changed recently to a smaller star version.

Segel- und Motorbootclub Glarnerland und Walensee (SMC GW), Glanerland and Lake Walen Sailing and Motor Boat Club, was founded in 1955. Though originally harboured in Weesen itself on the lower, west end of Lake Walen, over time it transferred to a harbour a kilometre to the south-east. Appropriately, this has moved the club across the canton border into canton Glarus. The club has developed the harbour further, and now offers its members space for both yachts and motor boats.

As the two clubs share the Walensee, the SMC GW organises activities together with the SCOW.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg,  November 2013

Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen

[Pennant of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The statutes of the Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen correctly refer to the often-overlooked point that boats should do their burgee justice: The board can refuse a poorly maintained ship the right to fly the burgee.
http://www.sycw.ch/index.php/de/79-sycw/73-nutzungsbedingungen

The statutes do not, on the other hand, tell us what that burgee looks like. The drawing that is used as a logo on the web site (www.sycw.ch), however, is a yellow triangular field with a black lying T that doesn't reach the hoist. Assuming that the arms are supposed to be equally wide, the flag would have to be approximately 1:2. I couldn't find any other details regarding the burgee, except that maybe the club had different burgees to go with the different names.

Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen (SYCW) was founded on 7 January 1948, for the purpose of fellowship and providing winter storage for the boats. Originally, the club was named "Pirat" (Pirate). A mention is made of a "Piraten-Abzeichen" (pirate badge), but I don't know whether that would mean an actual badge, and a burgee showing it. As the name of the club was not understood in the spirit it was chosen in, the club in 1951 changed their name: First to "Neuer Segelclub Zürich", and when the Zürcher Segelclub immediately took legal action against that choice, secondly to "Segel- und Motorbootclub", as there were some motorboats in the club as well. Their website doesn't say whether that was just "Segel- und Motorbootclub" or rather "Segel- und Motorbootclub Zürich". If the latter, that means the club that of that name that the SCE split off from in 1937 must have ended its existence before then.

Later members began moving their boats to the new harbour in Wollishofen on the west shore of the Zürichsee, and as the "Motorboot" part of their name harmed their image of a sailing club, as their fourth name the club picked "Segel- und Yachtclub Wollishofen". On their website, the club also writes the name as "Segel und Yacht Club Wollishofen". The club may have had earlier burgees that went with the earlier names. Apart from the mention of a "Piraten-Abzeichen", the WVR have a burgee in their club house looking like a yellow burgee with a black lying T on it with on the T the letters SMCZ and what looks like a fouled anchor (http://www.flickr.com/photos/wvrrichti/5003445987). Is this burgee from the "Segel- und Motorbootclub" era, I wonder?
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 27 September 2013 

Segelclub Zürcher Seen (formerly Küsnachter-Segelclub)

[Pennant of the Küsnachter-Segelclub] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of the Küsnachter-Segelclub, as seen on the web-page of the club, http://www.segelschulezwick.ch/segelclub.html, is a triangular flag with a ratio of approximately 4:7, with a yellow field with a red off-set cross, the width of the arms of the cross 1/9 of the height of the hoist. The image is not very clear though and no specification is available, so apart from there being a triangular flag with a cross I'm not sure of any of the details. Apart from the colours matching those of the Küsnacht flag, there's nothing else I can say about it.

The Küsnachter-Segelclub (KSC), was founded on 5 February 2005 in the community that had grown around the sailing school that started some six years earlier at the Strandbad of Küsnacht, on the east coast of the Zürichsee. The KSC aims to be an open club, without any obstructions to membership, where everyone is welcome. Having grown to a club of some 90 members, its relation to the sailing school apparently still gives it a certain focus on training groups. In 2012, the owner of the sailing school was fed up with the ad hoc rules for combining strandbad and sailing school that he had to endure each year, and intended to take his school elsewhere. Whether this has happened, and whether this possibly has brought the existence of the club to an end, I don't know. The web-page makes no mention of the reason for connecting the two words in the name by way of a hyphen.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 September 2013

The name of the sailing school and club's founder is Thomas Zwick. The club was renamed to Segelclub Zürcher Seen (SCZS – Lake Zurich Sailing Club) in 2015.
http://www.segelschulezwick.ch/segelclub/
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018

Clubs are renamed when they want to join the Swiss yachting federation, but find their abbreviation is already taken. Alternatively, it might be that the reference to Küsnacht had become obsolete owing to the school owner indeed moving elsewhere and taking the club with him.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 19 April 2018

Seglervereinigung Erlenbach

[Pennant of the Seglervereinigung Erlenbach] image by Ivan Sache

Seglervereiningung Erlenbach (SVE) was established in 1970 in Erlenbach, on the northern shore of Lake Zurich.

The club's burgee is described in Article 1.2 of the club's Statutes, last amended on 4 March 2014, as follows:
The flag (standard) of the club is a triangular pennant in proportions 2:3, in size 24 cm x 36 cm, in the colors of Erlenbach, blue with a white cross outlined in red.
http://www.sve-erlenbach.ch/club/statuten/p-183589/ (SVE website)
Ivan Sache, 19 April 2018

Seglervereinigung Eschenz

[Pennant of the Seglervereinigung Eschenz] image by Ivan Sache

Seglervereinigung Eschenz (SVEz) is based in Eschenz (Thurgau), at the western end of Lake Constance.
The burgee of SVEz is blue with two white bends.
https://www.segelvereinigung-eschenz.ch/ (SVEZ website)
Ivan Sache, 20 April 2018

Seglervereinigung Kilchberg

[Pennant of the Seglervereinigung Kilchberg] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

About the burgee of Seglervereinigung Kilchberg, the club's statutes (http://www.svkilchberg.ch/statuten.html) have this to say:
"Art. 22 Vereinsstander: gemäss Muster (siehe Anhang)"
(Article 22 – Burgee: according to model (see appendix))

And the appendix:
"Anhang zu den Statuten: Vereinsstander
Auszug aus den Statuten 1921: Der Stander des Clubs, den alle Mitglieder auf ihren Fahrzeugen zu führen verpflichtet sind, ist ein orange-farbener Wimpel mit schwarz eingefasstem liegendem blauen Kreuz." Das Original befindet sich im Schaukasten des Clubhauses.

Orange RAL 2004, Flächen
Blau RAL 5002, Kreuz
Schwarz RAL 9004, Umrandung blaues Kreuz
1. März 2007 (nach Neudefinition der Farben)
Änderungen GV 03.03.2011
Änderungen GV 08.03.2012"

(Appendix to the statutes: Club Burgee Excerpt from the statutes 1921
'The burgee of the club, which all members are required to fly from their vessels, is an orange-coloured pennant with black fimbriated lying blue cross.' The original is located in the display case of the club house.

Orange RAL 2004, fieldlets
Blau RAL 5002, cross
Schwarz RAL 9004, fimbriation around blue cross
1. March 2007 (after (re?)definition of colours)
Changes GA 03.03.2011
Changes GA 08.03.2012"

The accompanying image does indeed show the given design. Apparently the vertical arm is placed so, that the point where the cross reaches the hoist is equally far from the end of the hoist as from the point where the arms meet.

As no dimensions are given, it is unfortunate that the image does not have clear lines, at least not as reproduced as a PDF, leaving us with approximations. It turns out the image has not been scaled to keep distinct measures, so I had to reconstruct it. I gave the blue cross arms a width of 1/6 of the length of the hoist, and the black fringes a width of 1/24 of the length of the hoist. I also used general FotW colours, as I don't know how to derive RGB approximations of the RAL codes. I could not find a photograph of an actual burgee, but I see that the club themselves also use different shades on the website. Someone also must have exact dimensions, if only to produce burgees, but without them, this is my approximation.

No meaning is given for the burgee. According to http://www.svkilchberg.ch/vereins-chronik.html, though, the club colours of an older SVK were adopted. Considering that the relevant part of the Statutes is from 1921, I assume "colours" in this context refers to the burgee of the older club, which was adopted as that of the new club at that time.

The Seglervereinigung Kilchberg (SVK) was founded in its current form in 1962, by the community around the local, collectively run, sailing school. The club was to be a vehicle for local competitive sailors, who would otherwise go to clubs elsewhere as they needed national membership to be allowed to compete. The club is at home in Kilchberg, on the west shore of the Zürichsee, not far from Zürich. But the club doesn't just sail the Zürichsee and the Oberen Zürichsee; its members may be encountered on their sailing trips from Corsica to Danzig.

The SVK has the Zürcher Segelclub as a partner. Together they manage the Schilfmatt, a base site near Pfäffikon for sailing on the Oberen Zürichsee.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 20 September 2013


Seglervereinigung Kilchberg (1921)

[Pennant of the Seglervereinigung Kilchberg] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The statutes of the Seglervereinigung Kilchberg of 1962 (http://www.svkilchberg.ch/statuten.html), in their appendix quote this from statutes from 1921:
"Der Stander des Clubs, den alle Mitglieder auf ihren Fahrzeugen zu führen verpflichtet sind, ist ein orange-farbener Wimpel mit schwarz eingefasstem liegenden blauen Kreuz." (The burgee of the club, which all members are required to fly from their vessels, is an orange-coloured pennant with black fimbriated lying blue cross.) This is the design used by the current Seglervereinigung Kilchberg, but the statutes must be of the previous club by that name, as they are dated before the 1962 foundation year. The original is apparently located in the display case of the club house of the 1962 club, but I have not been able to find a photo, so my approximation is the same as for the younger club.

About the club we only know that they had statutes dated 1921, which may have been their original statutes, and that the club ceased to exist in 1934. It's name was adopted by the 1962, which is how we know the name of the older club.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 September 2013 

Seglervereinigung Oberrieden

[Pennant of the Seglervereinigung Oberrieden] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

About the burgee of the Seglervereinigung Oberrieden, the statutes of the SVO tell us (http://www.svo.ch/Libraries/PDF_s/SVO-Statuten.sflb.ashx, Statutes chapter VII, article 25): "Die Mitglieder der SVO führen, auf ihren Segel- und Motorbooten den offiziellen Stander der SVO." (The members of the SVO fly, from their sail and power boats, the official burgee of the SVO.) No details on the design of that official burgee are specified. These details are not specified elsewhere either. Also, no information is available on the creation or adoption of the burgee.

The burgee can be found as a graphic on the club website, http://www.svo.ch. It's a triangular flag with approximately a 5:11 ratio, blue with a lean six-pointed white star in the hoist and a lying white T-shape fimbriated red in the fly. Christian Hurter, chairman of the SVO, informed that the white star on a blue field is taken from the Oberrieden flag, while the white and red are the Swiss national colours. Mr. Hurter also provided me with a higher resolution logo to work from for creating this FotW image.

Seglervereinigung Oberrieden (SVO) – the statutes speak of "Segler-Vereinigung Oberrieden" – was founded in 1978. It's located on the west shore of the Zürichsee, in Oberrieden, its club house a former factory of concrete beams. The club offers its members both sporting and social events, and is especially involved with youth work in the area. The burgee is the only club flag Seglervereinigung Oberrieden uses.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 24 September 2013

Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil

[Pennant of the Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil, as part of the club logo, can be seen on the pages of the club website. The club's statutes describe it as follows (March 1996 – http://www.svt.ch/index.php?tab=verein/statuten):
"VI. Stander Art. 33 Die SVT führt einen blauen Stander mit gelbem diagonalem Kreuz, welches rot eingefasst ist und schmalem roten Kreuz mit langem Schenkel in der Längsachse des Standers. Die Höhe des Standers ist zwei Drittel der Länge."
(Chapter VI: Article 33 – The SVT flies a blue burgee with a yellow diagonal cross, which is fimbriated red and a narrow red cross with the long leg along the midline of the burgee. The height of the burgee is two-thirds of the length.)

The logo shows that the two crosses intersect at the same point, with the saltire on top, and that the saltire either has straight angles, or is just slightly longer than that.

The statutes then continue with:
"Art. 34 Alle Boote der SVT haben diesen Stander zu führen. Bootseigner, die mehreren Clubs angehören, müssen den SVT-Stander führen, wenn ihr Schiff in Thalwil liegt."
(Article 34 – All boats of the SVT must fly this burgee. Boat owners, who belong to more than one club, must fly the SVT-burgee, when their ship lies in Thalwil.)
Though the punctuation is a bit unusual, this is basically the rule that "Home waters trump seniority".

Other than that the Thalwil flag has bull-rushes in saltire, I wouldn't know what the possible significance of the design might be.

[Pennant of the Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

A series of photos regarding the club's 75th anniversary shows a flag differing slightly from the burgee: http://www.svt.ch/popup.php?tab=verein/75jahre/galerie&id=169 and following. Considering the size of this flag, I assume it's the club flag. The ratio of this flag, as pinned to the wall, looks like 10:19, and it shows a slightly short saltire. Presumably, if freed again, it will have a straight saltire and be 1:2.

Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil (SVT) is located at Thalwil on the west shore of the Zürichsee. The SVT was founded on 15 February 1936 and has grown from 10 members then to some 340 members now. The club has a balanced mix of activities: it is active for both the competitive sailor and the cruise sailor, both to teach the youth to sail and to guide them to competitive sailing, both to support boat owners and provide pool boats for non-owners.

In 1963, the Segelclub Pfäffikon was formed, which adopted a burgee that shared several characteristics with the SVT burgee. The members of the Segler-Vereinigung Thalwil protested against the design, yet the SCPF decided to keep the design as it was.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 16 October 2013

SIMPL (Segeln im Meilener Pool)

[Pennant of the SIMPL (Segeln im Meilener Pool)] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The burgee of SIMPL is only visible on the website. It is a yellow triangular 2:3 field, with two hoist triangles red above green. Centred in the yellow lozenge is the text "SIMPL", in black capitals, approximately 1/7 of the hoist high, in a sans font, for which FreeSans Bold is a good match. The burgee may not exist in the cloth, which would explains why it has such small lettering, that also gives readability problems on the reverse.

SIMPL (Segeln im Meilener Pool), Sailing in the Meilener Pool, is a vehicle for those who would partake in races without having to endure club life. Though formally located in Meilen, on the east shore of Lake Zurich, the club does not have a club house, apart from its website. Neither does it, itself, organise any races or any other event or training. The only thing it organises is one General Assembly per year. It does ask its members to respect other clubs, that do put effort into organising events where SIMPL does not.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 18 October 2013

Société Nautique de Genève

The SNG was founded in 1872 by local and foreign members of the upper classes who enjoyed sailing on the Lake Léman. In 1876, Baronness of Rotschild registered by the SNG her steamship "Gitana I". In 1907, the International Yachting Racing Union (IYRU) was created, and the SNG, then the only Swiss yacht club of international reputation, was appointed "the National Authority for Racing Yachting in Switzerland". Due to the development of yachting in Switzerland, the SNG dropped its title in 1939 and founded with other yacht clubs the Swiss Yachting Union.

The SNG is now the biggest Swiss yacht club. It has more than 3,000 members and its private port, located close to the famous Geneva fountain, has more than 600 moorings. The SNG is divided into four sections:

  • The "Section de l'Aviron", founded in 1872 along with the SNG, is dedicated to rowing
  • The "Cercle de la Voile", founded in 1903, is dedicated to ballast sailing boats
  • The "Section du Yachting Léger" is dedicated to dinghies and multihall boats
  • The "Section Hélice et Ski Nautique" is dedicated to the motor boating and water skiing.

[Pennant of the Société Nautique de Genève] image by Ivan Sache
The SNG has one "generic" burgee, which is the base for the burgee specific of each section. This burgee is horizontally divided in seven horizontal blue and white stripes. Two vertical yellow and red stripes are placed in canton, and stretch out vertically over the first two horizontal stripes. Yellow and red are the colours of Geneva.

[Pennant of the Société Nautique de Genève] image by Ivan Sache
Pennant of the Section de l'Aviron.The charge is a black stylized rower.

[Pennant of the Société Nautique de Genève] image by Ivan Sache
Pennant of the Cercle de la Voile. The charge is a blue V letter placed inside a red ring in the middle of the burgee.

[Pennant of the Société Nautique de Genève] image by Ivan Sache
Pennant of the Section Yachting Léger. The charge is made of stylized yellow YL letters stretching all over the burgee.

[Pennant of the Société Nautique de Genève] image by Ivan Sache
Pennant of the Section Moteur. The charge is a yellow three-bladed propeller.
Ivan Sache, 7 April 2003

Surfsegelclub Sempachersee

[Pennant of the SIMPL (Surfsegelclub Sempachersee)] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

With quite a bit of help from Hans Glanzmann, president of the Surfsegelclub Sempachersee, I was able to put together the following report:

The flag of the Surfsegelclub Sempachersee is a 1:1 white background with centred on it a Capri blue emblem with in white a windsurf board with sail, and the letters "SCSS", "SURFSEGEL CLUB", and "SEMPACHERSEE". It may not be the most creative flag design, but it's consistent: The emblem is used by the club for badges, as stickers, on pennants, and on the flag. The club have felt one of the other problems of putting an emblem on the flag: An emblem will not always age well. In 2007, members' requests to modernise the emblem were eventually abandoned because of the nostalgic flair of the emblem.

The blue is RAL 5019, Capri blue, the content and the background are White. The size of the original emblem design is 90 mm in diameter. Its size is always 0.84 of the the size of the flag, though, with the largest flag showing an emblem with a 1200 mm diameter. This flag was a modification of the previous flag, that it replaced in 2000. The emblem was created by Hans Glanzmann.

There's no club house flag as such, as there's no club house. The club, however, flies this same design from a flag pole on shore of their home lake, Lake Sempach.

[Pennant of the SIMPL (Surfsegelclub Sempachersee)] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

The Surfsegelclub Sempachersee (SCSS), Lake Sempach surf sailing club is a windsurf club founded in May 1980. At that time, the club used the abbreviation "SCS", which also appeared in the emblem, and thus on the flag and pennants. When, in 2000, the club became a member of the Schweizerischer Segelverband, it turned out that the abbreviation was already in use by the Segelclub Sihlsee, thus the Surfsegelclub Sempachersee took the new abbreviation "SCSS". The emblem, and thus all the designs that included it, changed to match.

The SCSS is located at Nottwil. The club is active in national and international competition, with members of the club winning international and national titles. Franziska Stauffacher, who is Swiss Champion 2013 Windsurf Formula, and Karin Jaggi, who is World Champion 2012 Slalom and Funboard Class and Swiss Champion 2013 Slalom and holds a total of 27 Windsurfing World Champion titles, are both among the club's members. In all, in 2012 a total of 28 of their members participated in national and international regattas.

Original flag: The original flag design, bearing the emblem version with the letters SCS, was used from 1980 until 2000.

[Pennant of the SIMPL (Surfsegelclub Sempachersee)] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

Pennant: The emblem is also used on pennants: A 290x190 mm triangle with the blue disk 115 mm. Though, obviously, on surfboards these can not be used as burgees, the pennants are used as decoration on tables during meetings, and are used as gifts for visiting clubs.

[Pennant of the SIMPL (Surfsegelclub Sempachersee)] image by Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg

Original pennant: The pennants must also have started out with the original emblem: A 290x190 mm triangle with the blue disk 115 mm.
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 30 October 2013